Chapter 107: Introduction to Spatial Studies

Although the Quiet Town is a multiplayer instance, the progress of players clearing the instance varies.

Every player receives an individual settlement based on their performance within the instance.

Want to contribute zero effort, hide in a safe place, and freeload on rewards after your teammates finish the instance? Sorry, in Abyss Game, such things do not exist.

If you really want to be a "boss" and clear the instance while lying down, it is not impossible.

One way is to spend money to buy intelligence from the main players clearing the instance; Jianxing holds small meetings with assistants every night to exchange information, which actually serves the purpose of passing information to the assistants to compensate for the dangers they encounter.

The second way is to hire enough thugs as bodyguards to complete the instance while being in a protected state throughout.

It is said that the core direct descendants of major factions hire many such bodyguards when completing certain special instances.

However, even if their progress is the same, different players still receive independent settlements.

This point is for the sake of the players' personal privacy in Abyss Game.

After all, what skills are learned and what treasures are obtained from the instance are reflected in the settlement, and no one wants these secrets to be discovered by others.

Just like the previous two times, Wu Chang stood in the settlement space, watching his various performances in the instance on the television wall.

"Player number 4444444, successfully completed the instance Quiet Town. Settlement begins based on the player's performance in the instance."

"Player has completed Main Quest I: Successfully spend thirty days in the town."

"Player has completed Main Quest II: Investigate the missing Count and find the truth."

"Through diligent labor, the player successfully gained the recognition of the Burifer townspeople, became a town councilor, participated in the Grace Day celebration, and discovered the secret of Burifer Town."

"Player discovered the secret of Burifer Island and completed the exploration of all seven Inner Worlds."

"Player successfully cleared all seven Inner Worlds and collected all seven Proofs of Original Sin."

"Player has completed the hidden side quest: Find the missing Saintess and retrieve the Stigmata."

"Player successfully discovered Count Germain's plan, disrupted it, and prevented the Fallen Icon from becoming an Evil God."

"Player discovered Professor Ebet's secret, fulfilled the professor's wish, and successfully rescued the Saintess."

"Player successfully discovered the plan of the Church and the Great Mother, successfully prevented the Great Mother's descent, and stopped the harvesting of faith power from the entire plane."

"Instance completion rate: 100%!"

"Title Perfectionist activated, instance completion rate +5%; Intermediate Reward Instance Permission activated, instance completion rate +8%; Final instance completion rate: 100%!"

"Since the player activated a reward instance, the overflow instance completion rate is converted into instance rewards, and the base instance reward increases by 65%."

"Intermediate Reward Instance Permission activated, base instance reward increases by 10%."

"Instance rating: Perfect!"

"Experience and Decayed Silver Coin settlement bonus: 300%!"

"Player gained experience: 6300 (1200×1.75×3)."

"Player gained Decayed Silver Coins: 10500 (2000×1.75×3)."

What Wu Chang did not expect was that the Intermediate Reward Instance would convert the overflow instance completion rate into instance rewards.

Neither Zhao Yan nor Mianhua had mentioned this.

However, thinking about it carefully, even with Intermediate Reward Instance Permission, it is almost impossible to exceed a 100% instance completion rate.

It is very difficult for ordinary players to obtain a 60% completion rate and reach a B clearance rating; exceeding the clearance for them is like getting a perfect score on a college entrance exam.

It exists in theory, but in reality, no one has ever seen it.

What surprised Wu Chang even more was that the completion rate was converted into base instance rewards, which were calculated multiplicatively with the settlement bonus from the Perfect rating.

This almost doubled his clearance rewards.

If Intermediate Reward Instances are this strong, wouldn't Advanced Reward Instances be heaven-defying?

No wonder players with potential are willing to join major factions; developing in a major faction indeed provides excessive nutrition.

"Player's instance rating reached S-rank; you may designate one item from the current instance world as a special drop reward. The selected item must be a prop for which you have already obtained usage permission. Please make your selection."

Wu Chang looked at the item list; there were indeed many good things in it.

For example, the fully automatic camera used by Jianxing; it can not only capture clues that resentment cannot display, but also increase the temporary inspiration cap after each capture.

Even when capturing special photos, it will cause an explosive growth in inspiration.

For players with low Willpower, its use is a double-edged sword, but for Wu Chang, who does not need to worry about inspiration runaway, both edges of this sword are directed at the enemy.

Besides the fully automatic camera, the Postman's delivery bag is also a good choice, as it can link with the True Self's giant whale transformation.

Entering the instance and letting the True Self carry the delivery bag, then finding a corner to eat, eat, eat—once full, coming out of the mountains to start crushing everything—is also a way to clear the instance.

However, after looking through the item list, he finally chose the Proof of Arrogance. The Proof of Arrogance is not only powerful in its own effect, but also the most critical part of the Stigmata.

In the future, for Ailin to complete the Stigmata and become an artificial god, she will still need to start with the Proof of Arrogance.

If Ailin can stably use her true divine form, it will definitely be stronger than him having a few more points of inspiration or Willpower.

"The special prop Proof of Arrogance selected by the player will have its skills changed after leaving the instance plane. Do you wish to maintain the selection?"

"Confirm."

"Item name: Proof of Arrogance"

"Item type: C"

"Item skill: Arrogance."

"Skill description: Holding the Proof of Arrogance reduces the pass requirement for mental control-type judgment skills by 25%. When communicating with others, there is a probability of causing the target to feel timid, actively submit, or reveal information; the probability depends on the user's Willpower attribute."

"Note: Legend has it that the secret to becoming a god is hidden within the Proof of Arrogance. Perhaps from a master of mysticism, one will find clues to decipher it."

Leaving aside the holy seal core within the Proof of Arrogance, just in terms of item ability, Wu Chang was very satisfied with it.

The active submission effect, if used well, is definitely a god-tier skill for extracting information, fully solving his problem of only being able to obtain information from the dead.

"Player's instance rating reached Perfect level; you may select one rare prop from the current instance plane as a reward."

"Introduction to Spatial Studies."

"Theory and Basics of Light Magic."

"Design Principles of Magic Dolls and Holy Icon Alchemy Circuits."

Having Ailin for the Holy Icon is enough; spending energy on these things is far less effective than improving his own strength.

Therefore, "Design Principles of Magic Dolls and Holy Icon Alchemy Circuits" was excluded first.

The reason for "Theory and Basics of Light Magic" is similar; with Ailin, a master-level light mage, for him to go and learn light magic is, firstly, a duplication of roles and a waste of resources, and secondly, it is easy to bring humiliation upon himself.

Ailin is the Church Saintess, the container designated by the Great Mother; "can easily master any light-type magic" is already written on her attribute panel.

Using light magic with her is very easy to be seen through.

The only thing left to choose is "Introduction to Spatial Studies."

"Cultivation Method: Primary Spatial Magic."

"Cultivation Method Rank: F"

"Spatial Magic can have its rank increased by paying Decayed Silver Coins or absorbing spatial-attribute spiritual objects; this method can be upgraded to a maximum of A-rank."

"Upgrading the method to E-rank requires 3000 Decayed Silver Coins."

Compared to the Thunder Method fragments, which are also a cultivation method, the upper limit of Spatial Magic is much higher, but the upgrade cost is also much higher.

There are only two skills under the cultivation method, but both are extremely practical:

"Efficient Spatial Utilization" and "Inner World."

"Efficient Spatial Utilization" can increase the effect of all his spatial-type skills by 50%, including his personal space.

You must know that personal space capacity is not generally cheap; expanding a spatial backpack from 1 cubic meter to 10 cubic meters requires 50,000 Decayed Silver Coins.

Calculating this way, as long as the spatial backpack is expanded to over 10 cubic meters, the value of the Efficient Spatial Utilization skill is guaranteed to be at least 25,000 Decayed Silver Coins.

"Inner World," as the name suggests, can be used to open up an Inner World similar to the one on Burifer Island.

The magic items needed can be bought in the trading area; once the Inner World is set up, it is an extremely safe shelter.

After the Spatial Magic rank increases, one can also set rules within the "Inner World."

Simultaneously containing both spatial-type and rule-type abilities, the upper limit of the Inner World skill cannot be low.

After selecting the rating rewards, the instance settlement ended there.

As a normal instance, the Quiet Town was in a non-out-of-control state; the benefit is that the instance difficulty is lower, but the disadvantage is that the instance pollution value was too low, not exceeding 85 points.

Even with a perfect clearance, it is impossible to obtain a random title.

However, the harvest from this instance was already enough; the Shadow-Casting Face was recast, the artificial god Ailin was brought out of the instance, and he hadn't had time to check the rewards after Ebet's deep red resentment was completed.

As a reward instance, it also brought more experience and Decayed Silver Coins than a normal C-rank instance, so there was no need to care about that one title.

After the settlement was completed, he exited the settlement space and returned to the instance waiting hall of the Red Wave Space.

The moment he came out, he was stunned for a moment.

Whoa, why are there so many people?

(End of chapter)